A recap of all race finishes from last years Gold Cup Day
What better way to prepare for Cheltenham Festival 2024, than to watch the culmination of Gold Cup day 2023. Enjoy!
Read MoreWhat better way to prepare for Cheltenham Festival 2024, than to watch the culmination of Gold Cup day 2023. Enjoy!
Read MoreTrained by Colm Murphy in Co. Wexford, Ireland, Brave Inca made a total of five appearances at the Cheltenham Festival. He established himself as one of the leading novice hurdlers in Ireland by winning his first four starts of the 2003/04 season, including the Grade One Deloitte Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown, and headed to the […]
Read MoreThe Dawn Run Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle is a Grade 2 hurdle race run over 2 miles and 179 yards at Cheltenham in March. As the name suggests, the race is restricted to young female horses aged four years and upwards who, prior to the start of the current season, have not won a race over […]
Read MoreThe Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase is a Grade 1 steeplechase run over 3 miles and 80 yards on the Old Course at Cheltenham in March. Open to horses aged five years and upwards, it is one of three Grade 1 novice steeplechases run at the Cheltenham Festival – the others being the Arkle Challenge Trophy […]
Read MoreThe Turners Novices’ Chase is a Grade 1 novices’ steeplechase run over 2 miles, 3 furlongs and 168 yards on the New Course at Cheltenham in March. Open to horses aged five years and upwards, the race is currently scheduled as the first race on the third day of the Cheltenham Festival. It is, […]
Read MoreIn recent seasons, Nicky Henderson has been forced to play ‘second fiddle’ to Irish trainers Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott at the Cheltenham Festival, at least as far as the leading trainer award is concerned. However, it shouldn’t be forgotten that the ‘Master of Seven Barrows’, who saddled his first Festival winner in 1985, […]
Read MoreJockey Jamie Moore on the Cheltenham Festival.
Read MorePatrick ‘Pat’ Taaffe, who died at the age of 62 in 1992, after undergoing a heart transplant the previous year, will always be remembered as the man who rode Arkle, arguably the greatest steeplechaser of all time. At the Cheltenham Festival, Taaffe and Arkle won the RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase in 1963, followed by […]
Read MoreNicky Henderson: “It’s getting a bit ridiculous, really.” Nicholas John ‘Nicky’ Henderson is the most successful trainer in the history of the Cheltenham Festival with 51 victories, including the Champion Hurdle (three times), the World Hurdle (twice) and the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Having ridden 75 winners as an amateur jockey, Henderson began his training career […]
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